Wednesday, October 24, 2007

Taking (ASR) Backup without floppy disk

An ASR set consists of a system backup and a 3.5" disk that lists the system files that are installed on the PC. If you don't have a 3.5" disk drive on your machine, you won't be able to create the ASR disk. However, you can still create an ASR disk by performing the following steps:

1. Run the ASR wizard, which is part of Windows Backup.2. After you run the ASR Wizard, start Windows Explorer.3. Navigate to the \%windir%\repair folder (e.g., C:\windows\repair).4. Copy the asr.sif and asrpnp.sif files to a network location.5. On a different networked computer that has a 3.5" disk drive, copy these files to a 3.5" disk and label the disk as your ASR disk.

hi Nishant, i have an idea on how to restore machines with ASR files from a share on the local machine.

Please tell me if this will work - just don't have the time to test it.

1. I will do full system backup2. copy the ASR files from ....\repair folder and store away3. when i need to recover PC/Serve, I will reinstall machine and recover from backup4. when prompted for ASR files, I will do the followinga)create a folder on local machine and call it adrive i.e. c:\adriveb)copy the ASR files to that folder and share that folderc) at command prompt run this:c:\net use a: \\10.0.0.2\adrive

would'nt that work or will the OS during restore look for physical stiffy-drive

your input would help me decide as to whether i need to purchase 3rd party backup software as none of the servers i want to backup have stiffy-drives. They like dinosaurs- extinct